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Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip ''Life in Hell'' (1977–2012) and the television series ''The Simpsons'' (1989–present) and ''Futurama'' (1999–2003, 2008–2013). ''The Simpsons'' has gone on to become the longest running U.S. primetime television series in history, as well as the longest running animated series and sitcom. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of ''Life in Hell'' to the avant-garde ''Wet'' magazine in 1978. At its peak, the cartoon was carried in 250 weekly newspapers. ''Life in Hell'' caught the attention of James L. Brooks. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show ''The Tracey Ullman Show''. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his ''Life in Hell'' characters for the show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, the Simpson family, and named the members after his own parents and sisters—while Bart was an anagram of the word brat. The shorts would be spun off into their own series ''The Simpsons'', which has since aired episodes. In 1997, Groening and former ''Simpsons'' writer David X. Cohen developed ''Futurama'', an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999, running for four years on Fox, then picked up by Comedy Central for additional seasons. Groening has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, ten for ''The Simpsons'' and two for ''Futurama'' as well as a British Comedy Award for "outstanding contribution to comedy" in 2004. In 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on ''Life in Hell''. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14, 2012. ==Early life== Groening was born on February 15, 1954〔. Retrieved on February 7, 2007〕 in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children (older brother Mark and sister Patty were born in 1950 and 1952, while the younger sisters Lisa and Maggie in 1956 and 1958, respectively). His Norwegian-American mother, Margaret Ruth (née Wiggum; March 23, 1919 – April 22, 2013), was once a teacher, and his German American father, Homer Philip Groening (December 30, 1919 – March 15, 1996), was a filmmaker, advertiser, writer and cartoonist. Homer, born in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada, grew up in a Mennonite, Plautdietsch-speaking family. Matt's grandfather, Abram Groening, was a professor at Tabor College, a Mennonite Brethren liberal arts college in Hillsboro, Kansas before moving to Albany College (now known as Lewis and Clark College) in Oregon in 1930. Groening grew up in Portland, and attended Ainsworth Elementary School and Lincoln High School.〔(Matt Groening's Simpsons profile ) ''thesimpsons.com''. Retrieved on March 4, 2007〕 From 1972〔.〕 to 1977, Groening attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Matt Groening at Evergreen )〕 a liberal arts school that he described as "a hippie college, with no grades or required classes, that drew every weirdo in the Northwest."〔.〕 He served as the editor of the campus newspaper, ''The Cooper Point Journal'', for which he also wrote articles and drew cartoons.〔 He befriended fellow cartoonist Lynda Barry after discovering that she had written a fan letter to Joseph Heller, one of Groening's favorite authors, and had received a reply. Groening has credited Barry with being "probably () biggest inspiration." He first became interested in cartoons after watching the Disney animated film ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'', and he has also cited ''Peanuts'' and its creator Charles M. Schulz as inspirations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matt Groening」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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